Outside Magazine, Dec 2006

THE O LISTLance Armstrong, Richard Branson, and Warren Buffett in a full-on philanthropic smackdown! The first energy-independent city in the U.S.! Your phone, your trainer/GPS unit/Web interface! Oh, yes, the time has come to sing the praises of 100 things—be they vegetable, animal, mineral, or secretary of the interior—worth getting overexcited about right now.

"DUDE... I MEAN DAD"Somewhere on North America's slopes lurks a walking anachronism: the "snowboard dad." Witness the bewilderment of one gruesome specimen as editor at large HAMPTON SIDES, sire of a fine young shredder, wrestles with his curse.

THE KENYAN COWBOYIn the Great Rift Valley, the suspicious shootings of two black men by a wealthy white landowner have fomented a clash between the remnants of British colonialism and Africa's aggrieved tribal descendants. BY JOSHUA HAMMER

ONE FISH, TWO FISH, WIN FISH, LOSE FISHWhat's an overindulgent Vegas casino to do for a spot of redemption? Throw some muscle around for the little guy in this case, the tiny Devils Hole pupfish, a Death Valley species sinking into oblivion.BY MIKE STEERE